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Beyond Baroque: Poets Paul Vangelisti & Dennis Phillips
About this Event
Join us for a reading featuring two legends of Los Angeles poetry. Widely influential poet, editor, and translator Paul Vangelisti reads from his new book, Motive and Opportunity. He's joined by the exceptional Dennis Phillips, former director of Beyond Baroque and author of 17 books of poetry.
Presented free via Zoom. Participants will be sent a link after registering.
About the authors:
Paul Vangelisti is the author of more than thirty books of poetry, as well as being a noted translator from Italian. His book of poems, Motive and Opportunity, was published in fall 2020 by Shearsman Books in the U.K. In 2015 he edited Amiri Baraka’s posthumous collected poems, S.O.S.: Poems, 1961-2014, for Grove Press. In 2006, Lucia Re’s and his translation of Amelia Rosselli’s War Variations won both the Premio Flaiano in Italy and the PEN-USA Award. In 2010, his translation of Adriano Spatola’s The Position of Things: Collected Poems, 1961-1992 was awarded the Academy of American Poets Prize. From 1971-1982 he was co-editor, with John McBride, of the literary magazine Invisible City and, from 1993-2002, edited Ribot, the annual report of the College of Neglected Science (CONS). The National Endowment for the Arts awarded Vangelisti one of its first Translation Fellowships in 1981, and a Poetry Fellowship in 1988. He lives in Pasadena.
Dennis Phillips is the author of 17 books of poetry, most recently, Mappa Mundi (Talisman House, 2019), Desert Sequence (Magra Editions, 2016), Measures (Talisman House Publishers, 2013) and Navigation: Selected Poems, 1985 – 2010 (Otis Books/Seismicity Editions, 2011). His work, both poetry and commentary, regularly appears in various national and local poetry journals. His first three translations, of works by Milli Graffi and Susanna Rabitti (the Rabitti with Paul Vangelisti) came out in 2018 and 2019 from Marga Books. In 1998 he edited and wrote the introduction for a book on the early essays of James Joyce, Joyce on Ibsen. His novel, Hope, came out in 2007 (Green Integer). Phillips is a professor in the Department of Humanities and Sciences at Art Center College of Design, where he has been teaching literature and writing since 1979.
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Date and Time
Thursday Apr 1, 2021
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM PDT
Thursday, April 1st
6:00 - 7:30 pm
Location
Virtual
Fees/Admission
Free
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